SCS News

May 2023

Collaged portraits of Aditi Raghunathan, Bryan Wilder and Huan Zhang.

Three SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows

By Kayla Papakie - Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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Spring 2023 Awards Roundup

By Compiled by Susie Cribbs - Friday, May 26, 2023
A male on the right side of the photo wearing glasses and a hard hat touches a robotic arm on the right that is covered in red and white knitted fabric.

Sweater-Wrapped Robots Can Feel and React to Human Touch

CMU Researchers Create Fabric and Sensing System To Measure Contact and Pressure

By Stacey Federoff - Thursday, May 25, 2023
This diagram includes a box on the left representing a large langage model, and one on the right showing a computer. The two are connected with an arrow pointing right and the words keyboard and mouse. Another arrow leaves points right and says observations.

CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks

Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions

By Aaron Aupperlee - Tuesday, May 23, 2023
A stock image depicts reading glasses in the foreground with a blurred computer screen in the background. Portions of the screen visible through the lenses are in focus.

CMU School of Computer Science To Host Generative AI Innovation Incubator

Series of Summer Events Aims To Shape Future Uses of Large Language Models

By Aaron Aupperlee - Friday, May 12, 2023
This AI-generated art shows a green hill against a blue sky, with human-like figures gathered around a table, while a one-eyed, three-armed green creature watches over the scene.

Artificial Intelligence Isn't All Scary

SCS Researcher Uses AI To Study Storytelling, Help Humans

By Susie Cribbs - Thursday, May 11, 2023
Collaged portraits of Norman Bier, Steven Moore and John Stamper.

CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

By Caroline Sheedy - Wednesday, May 10, 2023
This logo depicts a stained-glass window with a heart and a blue river running through it. The text reads Sharpsburg Bucks: Supporting small businesses, building communities.

Putting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are

CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg

By Byron Spice - Tuesday, May 9, 2023
This comic shows a character experiencing homelessness and follows them as they learn about and apply for an AI-assistant housing allocation program.

CMU Researchers Use Comics To Explain AI-Supported Public Housing System to People Who Need It Most

By Stacey Federoff - Monday, May 8, 2023
A screen shot of OurCS attendees in a Zoom grid.

SCS Expands OurCS Programming

By Kayla Papakie - Friday, May 5, 2023
This collaged graphic shows a woman holding a baby, emergency crews removing rubble from a building collapse, a firefighter in action, people in masks and a woman in a public service uniform looking at the camera.

Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

$20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges

By Aaron Aupperlee - Thursday, May 4, 2023
A rabbit and a turtle stand nose to nose.

The Myth of the Fast Learner

Data Shows Educational Technology Can Help Learners Catch Up

By Caroline Sheedy - Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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